Lessons learned in recall

What can be learned from Tuesday’s recall election, in which state Sen. Angela Giron was removed from office?

In no particular order, we learned that . . .

Pueblo’s Democrats are blue-collar Democrats; hard-working, hard-playing people. They are not Boulder liberals; they’re not even Denver Democrats. They will vote differently than their counterparts across Colorado.

Puebloans expect their elected officials to represent them, not to vote what they think best or to represent an agenda from elsewhere. When people turned out in large numbers at Pueblo town hall meetings to tell Giron not to support gun-control measures, they expected her to take their message to Denver.